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Ritual site - holy well

Shanlis, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Shanlis, County Louth, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Shanlis
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Toberdoney
Coordinates
53.84392, -6.57609
SMR number
LH017-020----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Marked on the 1938 'OS 6-inch' map as 'Toberdoney'. The OS Letters refer to a well called Tober Domhnaigh at which a station was formerly held (CLAJ 1927, 129). It was also known locally as St. Flannel's Well in the 1930's (Irish Folklore Commission Schools' Manuscripts 668, 381). Located in low marshy ground. It is an irregular-shaped, visible spring, roughly enclosed by a few very small boulders. Some small whitethorns grow on E side and a large ash sapling has fallen from which rosary beads, medals and buttons are hanging. A piece of old railway sleeper beside the well possibly for kneeling on. (ASI field notes, 10 May 1967)

Compiled by: Claire Breen

Date of upload: 20 June 2012

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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